Favorite Yiddish Stories

by Irving Howe

A collection of Yiddish stories that give a keen sense of Jewish culture, history, humor and feeling.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published May 18, 1992

About the author

Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short stories by Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, I. L. Peretz and others. This small volume gives the reader diverse pictures of Jewish life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You experience their difficult lives and warm society, while at the same time are given a poignant reminder of the destruction which was yet to come to those people.